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Baby names in Iowa, 2020s

2020–2025 · 152,468 recorded births

Oliver was the most common name given in Iowa across the 2020s, with 1,197 births in the decade. The state recorded 152,468 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Iowa in the 2020s

Names given far more often here than nationally in these years. The multiplier is conservative — it is the low end of the plausible range, so a name carried by a handful of births does not outrank one carried by hundreds.

NameBirthsvs national
Kinnick2530×
Carver64
Brecken87
Kollyns61
Huxley115
Briggs192
Tate316
Lettie55

Top 25 in the 2020s

RankNameBirths
#1Oliver1,197
#2Liam1,034
#3Henry1,028
#4Charlotte942
#5Theodore930
#6Olivia858
#7Noah798
#8Amelia745
#9Evelyn726
#10Jack716
#11Hudson705
#12Emma698
#13William696
#14Owen682
#15Harper668
#16Ava654
#17Elijah646
#18James643
#19Eleanor619
#20Asher617
#21Sophia596
#22Cooper590
#22Maverick590
#24Brooks585
#25Leo573

Other decades in Iowa

All Iowa names, 2025

Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org